 | Livy, I. W. Bieber - 1872 - 758 pagine
...esset, a strong wind fit for exciting the names arose, eam succendunt, infusoque aceto ardentia saxa they set fire to it, and, pouring vinegar on the heated stones, putrefaciunt. Rupem ita torridam they made them crumble to pieces. Through the rock, thus heated incendio... | |
 | Titus Livius - 1879 - 80 pagine
...that the rock should be cut through, immense trees which grew around having been felled and lopped, make a huge pile of timber ; and as soon as a strong...exciting the flames arose, they set fire to it, and by means of vinegar poured upon them they reduce to a crumbling condition the heated rocks. They then... | |
 | Mary Sheldon Barnes - 1885 - 612 pagine
...way down the cliff, . . . having felled and lopped a number of large trees which grew around, made a huge pile of timber ; and as soon as a strong wind...it, and pouring vinegar on the heated stones, they rendered them soft and crumbling. They then opened a way with iron instruments through the rock thus... | |
 | Mary Sheldon Barnes - 1885 - 580 pagine
...way down the cliff, . . . having felled and lopped a number of large trees which grew around, made a huge pile of timber ; and as soon as a strong wind...it, and pouring vinegar on the heated stones, they rendered them soft and crumbling. They then opened a way with iron instruments through the rock thus... | |
 | Mary Sheldon Barnes - 1890 - 280 pagine
...way down the cliff, . . . having felled and lopped a number of large trees which grew around, made a huge pile of timber ; and as soon as a strong wind...it, and pouring vinegar on the heated stones, they rendered them soft and crumbling. They then opened a way with iron instruments through the rock thus... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 548 pagine
...of burden had been fatigued to no purpose, the camp was pitched on the summit, and the soldiers were set to make a way down the cliff, by which alone a...it ; and pouring vinegar on the heated stones, they rendered them soft and crumbling. They then open a way with iron instruments through the rock thus... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pagine
...struggling, so that most of them, as if taken in a trap, stuck in the hardened and deeply frozen ice. At length, after the men and beasts of burden had...they render them soft and crumbling. They then open a road through the incandescent rock with iron tools, and reduce the grades by moderate windings, so... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 560 pagine
...struggling, so that most of them, as if taken in a trap, stuck in the hardened and deeply frozen ice. At length, after the men and beasts of burden had...they render them soft and crumbling. They then open a road through the incandescent rock with iron tools, and reduce the grades by moderate windings, so... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 408 pagine
...of burden had been fatigued to no purpose, the camp was pitched on the summit, and the soldiers were set to make a way down the cliff, by which alone a...it ; and pouring vinegar on the heated stones, they rendered them soft and crumbling. They then open a way with iron instruments through the rock thus... | |
 | 1901 - 638 pagine
...be effected; and it being necessary that they should cut through the rocks, having felled and loppod a number of large trees which grew around, they make...it, and pouring vinegar on the heated stones, they rendered them soft and crumbling. They then open a way with iron instruments through the rock thus... | |
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The soldiers being then set to make a way down the cliff, by which alone a passage could be effected, and it being necessary that they should cut through the rocks, having felled and lopped a number of large trees which grew around, they make a huge pile... 
